Novak has to have more fun

Now a year after leaving tennis superstar Novak Djokovic’s team, physician Igor Cetojevic has fond memories of the time he spent alongside the finest Serbian tennis player. Facing the start of the US Open, he believes Novak is ready for another big achievement in his career and advises the fellow Serb to try to be more relaxed, just like during the time when Cetojevic was employed as Novak’s personal physician.

Novak Djokovic

Novak's games lately showed signs of mental fatigue, which is understandable, but in an interview for "Blic" Igor Cetojevic says that this is not anything serious and that Djokovic will play again like last season. Antiglutensku diet, the application of which is intensified Cetojevic, Djokovic is still practiced, but the biggest problem is mental fatigue.

- Play a game, sometimes better sometimes worse. Still unsatisfactory because the results are not at all negligible. What is happening around Novak easily come to the conclusion that it created enormous pressure from irresponsible and unconscious people in and around the sport! Sometimes the expectations imposed to achieve a result in itself make a disservice.

Do you have some physical aspects meant that poor play as the first set against Federer in Cincinnati?

- I do not think the physical components of his game were bad, because the second set showed that Nole and Roger Federer were almost equal.

How much mental fatigue influence on him, and can you compare it to the psychological sense now than in the period when you were working together?

- Surely there is fatigue on all levels, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, if you have a tournament to tournament, change continents, environment and the like. To be a champion in any top sport, especially tennis, is not an easy thing. Really requires a lot of sacrifices and adjustments. And almost without a break, and adequate rest the whole year! I think the key to speed and facilitate adequate adaptation to new environments and new goals. What is the difference between Nole's historic 2011th and today? I just added that Novak year older and more experienced, both in their professional and private lives. The current results or small declines need not mean anything if we have a clear picture of how to proceed.

What would you advise him before the U.S. Open, in order that they gave their best game?

- First, the good messes and relax with the whole team, which he joined at the U.S. Open, and then to work with a smile. It is adorned him as we worked together in 2011!

What do you expect from Novak in New York?

- Generally speaking, I do not expect anything in life, I live my life! So I do not have any expectations for a Novak. I wished I would have a little more luck and health to be well served - said at the end of Igor Cetojevic.

Novak chopped racquets in frustration

How much Novak Djokovic suffered after failing to win a medal at the London Olympics is best depicted by what Serbian Olympic Committee chairman Vlade Divac has revealed for sports newspaper Sportski zurnal.
- I have never seen an athlete fighting for Serbia investing so much energy. It was simply infectious. After the match with Juan Martin del Potro I came to see him. When I came in he was chopping his racquets in frustration. You cannot see this with anyone who is not interested in his achievement. He looked up at me and said, Vlade, I am sorry. I just told him, don’t apologise any more – you have been and you are and you will again be a champion. I want to thank you for leading the team and for fighting for medals, said Divac.